>>>>>>>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>>>>>>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>>>>>>> > on my network in wireshark? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >>>>>>>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> airmon-ng start wlan0 >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm >>>>>> after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar >>>>>> with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? >>>>> >>>>> iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration >>>>> >>>>> Usage: iw [options] command >>>>> Options: >>>>> --debug enable netlink debugging >>>>> --version show version >>>>> Commands: >>>>> help >>>>> event >>>>> list >>>>> phy <phyname> info >>>>> dev <devname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>>> phy <phyname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>>> dev <devname> set freq <freq> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>>> phy <phyname> set freq <freq> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>>> phy <phyname> set name <new name> >>>>> dev <devname> set meshid <meshid> >>>>> dev <devname> set monitor <flag> [...] >>>>> dev <devname> info >>>>> dev <devname> del >>>>> dev <devname> interface add <name> type <type> [mesh_id >>>>> <meshid>] [flags ...] >>>>> phy <phyname> interface add <name> type <type> [mesh_id >>>>> <meshid>] [flags ...] >>>>> dev <devname> station dump >>>>> dev <devname> station set <MAC address> plink_action <open|block> >>>>> dev <devname> station del <MAC address> >>>>> dev <devname> station get <MAC address> >>>>> dev <devname> mpath dump >>>>> dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address> next_hop >>>>> <next hop MAC address> >>>>> dev <devname> mpath new <destination MAC address> next_hop >>>>> <next hop MAC address> >>>>> dev <devname> mpath del <MAC address> >>>>> dev <devname> mpath get <MAC address> >>>>> reg set <ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha2> >>>>> dev <devname> get mesh_param <param> >>>>> dev <devname> set mesh_param <param> <value> >>>> >>>> Are we talking about the same thing? >>>> >>>> iw: "nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng" >>>> >>>> - Grant >>> >>> Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. >>> >>> Paul >> >> I've got aircrack-ng installed and I get: >> >> # emerge -pv iw >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "net-wireless/iw" have been masked. >> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >> request: >> - net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) >> - net-wireless/iw-0_p20080605 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) >> >> - Grant > > I'm using ~amd64 and emerged net-wireless/aircrack-ng-1.0_rc1 which > pulled in net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 as a dependency. Actually the > aircrack-ng fails to build but that's irrelevant :)
Got it, thank you. - Grant
